Overview: The amount of data that users need to analyze for insights is growing by leaps and bounds. To make sense of that data, business analytics and business intelligence (BI) applications use a great deal of processing power, which can affect their performance. This is of little interest to business users, analysts and executives, all of whom expect to be able to access, analyze and process the data and intelligence they need as rapidly as possible.

This paper covers the in-memory processing capabilities used in Cognos software for faster queries and how to determine which is right for your business.